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Mammals of Burma. 



[No. 1, 



Rucervus schornhurghi, Blyth, which is a Siamese representative of the Indian 

 R. duvaucetti, and doubtless similar in its habits. For illustrations of the 

 horns of all four species, vide Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 835, figs. 1-23. The 

 earliest figure of the horns of P. eldi is given, with a portrait of its dis- 

 coverer, Lieut. Eld, in the Bengal Sporting Magazine.* 



This remarkable Deer is a highly gregarious species, resorting to open- 

 ings in the forest, like the Indian Bara-sing'ha, JRucervus duvaucelli.\ 



*118. Cekvulus aueeus (J. 223). 

 Styloceras aureus, H. Smith, G.A.K. iv. 148, t. v. 805. 



Gee, or Barking Deer. 



The diminutive Deer of this form, commonly known as Muntjacs, 

 are generally distributed over the hill forests of north-east Asia and its 

 islands ; but examination of a series of skulls from different localities 

 in the Museum of the London Royal College of Surgeons inclines me to 

 think that the various species of them have not been satisfactorily made 

 out. That of Java, C. vaginalis, Boddaert, is one of the most distinct, 

 and has considerably larger horns than any of the others ; again, the small 

 C. reevesii, Ogilby, of China is well distinguished ; and Dr. Gray charac- 

 terizes one from Cambodja as C. cambojensis,% which he has since identified 

 with Rueervus schornlurgki ! The Burmese species differs in no respect 

 that I am aware of from the ordinary Indian one, and again from that 

 inhabiting the Malayan peninsula; but the Sumatran would appear to be 

 somewhat different. It is the most numerous and universally diffused of 

 all the Deer of Burma. More extensive materials for comparison of the 

 different races than are at present available are needed for a final determina- 

 tion of the species of Muntjac Deer.§ 



Fam. Caprid.se. 



Goats, Sheep, and Antelopes in part. 



*119. CAPEICOElSriS STTMATEEltfSIS. 



Antilope sumatrensis, Shaw; Marsden, Hist. Sumatra, Atlas, pi. xiv; F. Cuvier, 

 Mamm. Lithog. ; A. inter scapular is, Lichtenstein ; C. rubida, Blyth ; C. swinhoei, Gray, 

 P. Z. S. 1862, p. 263, pi. xxxv ; skull with horns from Arakan, figured Calc. Journ. N. H. 

 i. pi. xii. Tan-kseiJc, Mason. 



* Lc. vol. xiv. 1839, p. 346. 



f vide Lieut. Eld, loc. cit., and especially Lieut. Beavan, in J. A. S. B. xxxvi. p. 175 

 et seq., and P. Z. S. 1867, p. 759. 

 % P. Z. S. 1861, p. 138. 

 § [Sir V. Brooke has since arranged the known species, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 33.— Ed.] 



